A Note From Our Executive Director, Dil (aka Moonlight)
After eleven years of co-founding and leading Reset, I'm beginning my transition out of the Executive Director role. I'll complete my term before the end of this year and will share the exact date once it's confirmed.
It's no secret that Reset has been one of the great loves of my life. I've grown up inside this work - as a leader, a collaborator, and a human being. Many of my closest friends have come from this community. Many of my most joyful memories were made inside the experiences we've built together. This was not a light decision. I made it because I'm ready for new challenges — and because Reset is ready for its next chapter.
Between now and my last day, I'll be focusing my time and energy on organizing Camp Reset 2026 and laying the groundwork for what comes next. I'm thrilled to be co-stewarding Camp this year alongside Christie Wong, and I can't wait for you to meet the Camp Collective, the Camp Committees, and the many leaders stepping into new advisory roles. This is all part of our intentional shift toward widening the web of people leading this community - and it's something I feel genuinely proud of.
The Reset board is thoughtfully working through what leadership looks like beyond my tenure. More on that when the time is right.
In the meantime - Camp Reset 2026 tickets are on sale now in May. It's going to be a special one. You can find all the details on the Camp Reset page.
I've written a more personal reflection below - the gratitude, the grief, the growth, and some accounting of where I fell short. I'd love for you to read it.
A [more] Personal Letter
Hello friends,
March feels like the right time to take a breath, look back, and share what's stirring.
We are living through a moment of deep disconnection, burnout, and broken trust. Systems that teach us to make it on our own rather than build something together. A world that often feels too heavy to imagine differently. And yet - imagination is exactly what's being asked of us.
This is why choosing community matters. Not as a retreat from the world, but as a way of practising for it. Community is not just a nice thing to have. It is the foundation of our collective well-being. It is how we address the disconnection and division that so many of us are quietly carrying. When we share space, take off our masks, restore our nervous systems, and practice the skills of belonging - we are not escaping the hard work of the world. We are becoming more capable of doing it.
Choosing community is an act of resistance and an act of imagination at the same time. It says: the world as it is, is not the world as it has to be. And it says: I am willing to practice something different, here, with you.
That is the beating heart of Reset. That is why this work has mattered for eleven years. And that is why I believe it will matter for many more.
Our Story So Far
Reset began in 2015, when a small group of co-founders — Andrew Peek, Antonio Carito, Emma Brooks, Negin Sairafi, Rhea Mehta, Hima Batavia, Vlad Glebov and myself - eager to address our own experiences of disconnection, crafted a four-day adult summer camp in rural Canada for 80 people. No phones. No work talk. No real names. We called it Camp Reset. What unfolded exceeded our most whimsical dreams, and sparked something none of us could have anticipated: a genuine desire to extend the impact beyond ourselves.
The initial five camps (2015–2019) were experimental - each year bigger, higher stakes, more beautiful. Then the pandemic forced us to cancel Camp, and nearly brought Reset to the brink of closure. What saved us wasn't a plan. It was the community. You challenged us to reimagine Reset in light of unprecedented mass disconnection, and together, we did.
We hosted 50 Pop Up Playgrounds in public spaces, designing experiences to help people share space with strangers again - and received a Community Champion Award from the City of Toronto for this work. We set a world record for the most nations represented in a group hug, creating an enduring symbol of pandemic-era reunification and building new conversations around consenting touch. We brought back Camp. We began working with organizations on the social health of their teams. We ran a Community Living Room in Little Jamaica for two years and created a literal Wondervserse in an old airport hangar.
In the language of social movement strategy, this is Reimagine work - shifting the cultural norms and nervous systems that make new futures believable. Not where people fight the system, but where people unlearn the system so they can return resourced to fight, build, and care from a different place.
We've never felt more certain that this work matters.
Honest Accounting
The tone of this letter is one of celebration - but I would be remiss not to acknowledge the harder parts, too.
My leadership has been far from perfect. There were times I didn't centre the right voices. Times I crossed boundaries I should have held. Times I made poor judgments that affected people I care about. Times I didn't model the rest culture I was asking others to embrace. I'm working toward the healing and integration that needs to happen before the end of the year - and for me personally, for years to come. I haven't arrived. I'm still in it.
I want to name some key learnings from this journey - but I also know I need more time and space for reflection before I can do that honestly and well. I'll share more when I'm ready.
What I can say now: thank you. To the countless people who have contributed to this journey and to my role within it — the collective, collaborators, community members, volunteers, supporters, and our Board — this work was never mine alone. It was always ours. I carry every one of you with me.
And closer to home - to my parents, my siblings and Shilbee: thank you for your unwavering encouragement and for never once making me feel like this path was too strange or too uncertain to follow for the past 11 years. I am, who I am, because of you.
What's Next for Me
I'm slowly beginning to imagine what my next chapter could look like and I genuinely don't know yet. At the moment, there are two directions pulling at me: the intersection of art, social health, and community; and the question of how technology - especially in the age of AI - can be made healthier and more humane. Both feel true to who I am and naturally braid into my work with Reset.
But for now, I'm open. If something I've said resonates with you and you want to talk, I welcome that conversation.
One More Thing
Camp Reset 2026 is happening September 14–21. Tickets are on sale now in March. Come. Bring someone you love. Bring someone you want to know better. Let's choose community - together, one more time.
In Community,
Dil/Moonlight (adildhalla@gmail.com)